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Chuck Hagel’s Foreign Policy Roadmap

In 2004 Chuck Hagel, Obama’s current nominee for Secretary of Defense, outlined his foreign policy vision. Writing for Foreign Affairs Hagel looked more like Madeline Albright or William Coehn than Dick Cheney. In fact, his support for international organizations is downright giddy. “The UN is more relevant today than it has ever been,” he wrote to the chagrin of Republicans everywhere. “The global challenges of terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, hunger, disease, and poverty require multilateral responses and initiatives.”